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Three internationally known architects will give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for the year 1961-62. Felix Candela of Mexico will open the annual lectureship on the arts and literature with a talk on "The Paradox of Structuralism," Thursday...
Sharing the Norton Professorship of Poetry this year with Candela will be R. Buckminster Fuller '17 of the United States and Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy...
They are R. Buckminster Fuller '17, who introduced the geodesic dome to modern architecture; Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy, an architect known for his use of thin concrete shells; and Felix Candela of Mexico, an experimenter with such new structural concepts as elliptical domes and umbrellas...
...Candela, a professor at the National School of Architecture in Mexico City, has designed and constructed a number of buildings in Mexico featuring thin concrete roofs in the form of hyperbolic paraboloids, umbrellas, folded slabs, elliptical domes, and undulating curves...
...Candela works from intuition and experience, later proves out his drawings with "rather boring, lengthy" computations, likes to be his own engineer and contractor. With a host of sail-thin forms to play with, Candela feels architects are on the verge of a whole new architecture. "Shell construction covers great space with a minimum of material, and it is interesting and attactive besides...